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Unit 2 Assignment 2
Improving Security Through Layered Security Control
Jose J Delgado









Improving Security Through Layered Security Control
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Global Limited has the reputation as one of the world’s leading providers of infrastructure information systems, software, and services around the world. Global’s clients range from worldwide enterprises to startup companies across all industry sectors, including financial services, manufacturing, transportation, and public services.
Information is a key asset in an organization, yet traditional security practices have either not provided adequate protection of information or have been so restrictive that they have prevented companies from making the maximum use of information to innovate, collaborate, and achieve competitive advantages. The security approach that many organizations have been forced to take in the past have been a reactive approach rather than viewing information security as a business enabler they see it as an inhibitor, designed to prevent bad things from happening. The problem with this is that good efforts in one area can be quickly nullified by failures in another. To help with its security transformation, Global called upon the expertise of CIS, its own security division, CIS’s information risk management strategy brings together, within a global framework, all the components that an organization needs to plan and implement an end-to-end approach for protecting a business’s most critical information assets.
Looking a compliance you have to understand that there are certain laws that apply to financial data. The question at hand is looking at reporting from an unsecure network. Bringing in a risk team will first a foremost put that to a stop, finance data should not be reported over unsecured networks, this can a violation of compliance law by letting information out be that either non encrypted or passing it along where it is vulnerable. Assuring the...

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